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Noun(1) a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist

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(1) I shrugged off the peplos on my right shoulder.(2) I was about to stop her when she dropped her peplos .(3) Picking up the skirts of her peplos , she ran towards me.(4) I felt his tears through the thin linen of my peplos .(5) I stepped on her peplos so she wouldn't be able to pull herself up and run away.(6) Her arms were scraped, her himation had torn off, and her peplos was tearing.(7) I dressed in my favorite blue peplos with a belt of gold rope.(8) I wrapped a himation around myself and dressed in a peplos .(9) Women of Athens wove the peplos or robe to be presented to the statue of Athena Polias on the Acropolis, embroidered with a scene of the battle with the Giants.(10) Her himation is pulled up over her head, and covers much of her peplos , which is decorated with a dotted lozenge.(11) I was still dressed in my peplos and himation but they were soiled.(12) I pulled off my peplos angrily and threw it aside.(13) I cried, cursing the skirts of the peplos as I ran.(14) Clad in the white peplos of a Greek goddess and elegantly coiffed, she gazes unemotional and aloof at the grisly head on her platter.(15) She began to fidget, clutching her peplos and grasping it tightly until her knuckles turned white.(16) Putting the peplos on the talisman was an act of simple magic.
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2. peplum


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